I tested the sym-2 driver on ppc64 and found that hcb_p can be > 1 page
but __sym_malloc fails for allocations over 1 page. This means we
die in sym_attach.
With this patch the sym-2 works on ppc64. BTW so far it looks solid :)
Anton
diff -urN 2.4.15-pre4/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.h linuxppc_2_4_devel_work/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.h
--- 2.4.15-pre4/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.h Thu Nov 15 13:38:02 2001
+++ linuxppc_2_4_devel_work/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.h Tue Nov 13 18:03:07 2001
@@ -526,7 +526,7 @@
* couple of things related to the memory allocator.
*/
typedef u_long m_addr_t; /* Enough bits to represent any address */
-#define SYM_MEM_PAGE_ORDER 0 /* 1 PAGE maximum */
+#define SYM_MEM_PAGE_ORDER 1 /* 2 PAGE maximum */
#define SYM_MEM_CLUSTER_SHIFT (PAGE_SHIFT+SYM_MEM_PAGE_ORDER)
#ifdef MODULE
#define SYM_MEM_FREE_UNUSED /* Free unused pages immediately */
-
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